Welcome to The War In Angola In Miniature website!.
As you will notice as you work through the content of this website, there are really two types of content:
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Content relating to actual events, structures, equipment, discussions and accounts, which includes sections such as:
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Chronology
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Historical Analysis
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Part of the Gallery
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Events of the time
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Videos
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Music and Songs
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The Units
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Historical Accounts
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Most of the Forums
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Some of the Maps
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The Equipment
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Content relating to the miniature gaming aspects of re-fighting the battles of the war, and includes:
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Part of the Gallery
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Wargaming Events and Scheduled Refights
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Orders Of Battle
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Scenarios
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Battle Reports
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Dedicated Forums about the rules and miniatures used
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The Rules
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Some reworked Maps
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The Situation Timeline (based on educated guesses)
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The Miniatures
The line between actual and gaming blurs a little as I attempt to marry up the two types of content through extensive research. My ideal is to base most of the gaming scenarios and conditions on actual situations and events AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE with the given information available. To this effect, I will be adjusting unit orders of battle and TO&Es continually as new information and input from members and archives and books become available. The same goes for equipment lists and fighting tables used in the gaming mechanism.
I appreciate all input and information from all participants and experts. Hopefully this will all help me maintain a balanced and well-informed content which considers the viewpoint from all the sides, without being unjustifiably biased to either one, despite the fact that I was once a member of the SADF. As a wargamer, I endeavour to create scenarios that are closest to the actual circumstances and give either side a fighting chance on the table top. You never know, as a competitive wargamer you may just end up playing the “other side”....!
For the not-so-informed, I include a section about the origins of wargaming in a link on top of this page. I will be adding all sorts of topics here specifically to assist the new wargamer in getting involved in refighting the War In Angola battles.... Topics will include items like:
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Introduction to wargaming
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Collecting and building a miniature army
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Painting your figures
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Creating terrain
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Introduction to the Battlegroup ruleset
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Refighting your first battle
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The Seven Gambits of War
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Strategy and tactics used
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Doctrines and standard operating procedures
These will be accompanied by appropriate discussion topics in the Forums inviting visitors and members to the site to comment and contribute ideas and tips. We may even be able to get some experts to contribute proper miltary analysis reports on the actual battles and possibly even on the miniature refights!
All the best. I do hope you will be able to both benefit from and fully appreciate the mass of information available here.
I have not yet published 5% of the material I currently have and hope to increase that percentage considerably over the next couple of years. So PLEASE DO COME BACK REGULARLY....
Please do net hesitate to send me your ideas and comments (and the battle reports and photos of your own re-fights).
Regards
Johan Schoeman
www.warinangola.com |